Beyoncé makes history as ‘Cowboy Carter’ leads Grammy nominations

The popular princesses are going to conflict it retired for the crown astatine the 2025 Grammy Awards, but it’s Beyoncé’s archetypal foray into state that leads the nominations and made past for the popular icon.

Grammy nominees were announced Friday morning, bringing Beyoncé’s bequest to a whopping 99 nominations and breaking her necktie with hubby Jay-Z arsenic the astir nominated creator successful Grammy history.

Beyoncé’s “Cowboy Carter,” her archetypal successful the state genre, boasts 11 nominations — including successful 3 of the 4 astir coveted categories: Album of the Year, Song of the Year and Record of the Year.

Sabrina Carpenter performs connected signifier during the 2024 MTV Video Music Awards astatine UBS Arena connected September 11, 2024 successful Elmont, New York. (Photo by Mike Coppola/Getty Images for MTV)

Billie Eilish, Post Malone, Kendrick Lamar and Brat Summer designer Charli XCX travel with 7 nominations each. Sabrina Carpenter, Chappell Roan and Taylor Swift person six nominations each.

Beyoncé’s “Cowboy Carter,” Eilish’s “Hit Me Hard and Soft,” and Charli XCX’s “Brat” are each competing for Album of the Year. They’ll besides beryllium up against André 3000’s “New Blue Sun,” Chappell Roan’s “The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess,” Jacob Collier’s “Djesse Vol. 4,” Sabrina Carpenter’s “Short n’ Sweet,” and Taylor Swift’s “The Tortured Poet’s Department.”

Those artists are each contending for Record of the Year — prevention for André 3000 and Jacob Collier — arsenic good arsenic Song of the Year, from which Charli XCX is absent.

Charli XCX attends the 2024 LACMA Art+Film Gala astatine Los Angeles County Museum of Art connected November 02, 2024 successful Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Monica Schipper/Getty Images)

Beyoncé’s “Texas Hold ‘Em” is nominated successful some categories, arsenic are Eilish’s “Birds of a Feather,” Roan’s “Good Luck, Babe!,” Lamar’s “Not Like Us” and Swift’s collaboration with Post Malone, “Fortnight.”

The Beatles’ “Now and Then,” Charli’s “360,” and Carpenter’s opus of the summer, “Espresso,” are besides up for Record of the Year.

Lady Gaga and Bruno Mars’ “Die With a Smile,” Carpenter’s “Please Please Please” and Shaboozey are besides competing for Song of the Year.

Though Beyoncé did not snag immoderate nominations for this year’s Country Music Association Awards, “Cowboy Carter” is besides nominated for respective Grammys successful 4 state categories — including Best Country Album — arsenic good arsenic successful pop, melodic rap and Americana.

Charli and Post Malone besides got nominated crossed genres, with the erstwhile tapped successful popular arsenic good arsenic creation and physics categories and the second successful popular and country.

Carpenter and Roan volition look disconnected for Best New Artist, arsenic good arsenic successful Best Pop Solo Performance and Best Pop Vocal Album. Best Pop Solo Performance besides includes Beyoncé, Charli, and Eilish, portion Swift enters the chat with Best Pop Vocal Album, arsenic does Ariana Grande’s “Eternal Sunshine.”

Though much of popular royalty nabbed the expected nominations, Grande was notably snubbed successful some Album of the Year and Record of the Year. It was predicted she mightiness snag a information for the second with “We Can’t Be Friends (Wait for Your Love).”

Other notable nominations see the star-studded Best Rock Performance and Best Rock Album categories. The Beatles are nominated for the former, The Rolling Stones for the latter, and Green Day and Pearl Jam person nods for both.

After his beef with Drake made headlines this summer, Lamar grabbed Best Rap Performance nominations for 2 tracks fueled by that rivalry: “Not Like Us” and his collaboration with Future and Metro Boomin, “Like That.”